Popular television and public mental health: creating media entertainment from mental distress

Henderson, Lesley

doi:10.1080/09581596.2017.1309007

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“…The media is also in a position to provide positive images of mental illness and the results in this study showed that psychiatric nurses had experiences of the media providing nuanced reporting on mental illness. TV-shows could provide a positive image of mental illness and previous research has showed how TV-shows can fluctuate between positive and negative portrayals of mental illness based on the dramaturgical need of the show (Henderson, 2018). The findings show that social media sometimes provide positive portrayals of mental illness.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…This finding is partially supported by previous studies (Klin & Lemish, 2008;Wahl, 2003), but it appears as if previous studies have not differentiated between negative portrayals and false or made-up statements. One previous study showed that the creators of TV-shows were aware of the misleading picture of mental illness that their shows conveyed, but felt that their job was to provide good dramaturgy and entertainment, not to educate their viewers (Henderson, 2018). This indicates that the responsibility for the negative and misleading reporting of mental illness in the media is ambiguous and problematic and that changes are required in terms of how mental illness is approached in the public media.…”

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Swedish Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Portrayals of Mental Illness in Public Media

Liljeqvist

Kling

Hallén

et al. 2019

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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News reporting about mental illness lack perspectives of the mentally ill themselves and it is almost exclusively psychiatrists who are accessed when healthcare staff is consulted. The perspective of mental health nurses might contribute to the public understanding of mental illness. The purpose of this study was to describe mental health nurses' experiences of how mental illness is portrayed in media. Eight semi-structured interviews were conducted with qualified mental health nurses. A qualitative content analysis resulted in three categories: Negative portrayals of mental illness, Inconclusive images of mental illness and Biased dissemination of different perspectives. The conclusion of this study is that mental health nurses experience media portrayals of mental illness as negative and misleading with too much emphasis on the medical perspective while a holistic mental health nursing perspective is heavily obscured. Mental health nurses need to take a more prominent role in public reporting on mental health to resolve the current lack of relevant facts regarding mental illness. Further research is needed regarding portrayals of mental illness in social media and how the current lack of perspectives affects public perceptions of mental illness. In addition, further studies regarding the viewpoints of journalists reporting on mental illness are required.

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Swedish Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Portrayals of Mental Illness in Public Media

Liljeqvist

Kling

Hallén

et al. 2019

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…Lancaster et al 2015, Logan et al 2013, Southgate and Bennett 2014, its application to mental health policy is relatively less developed. To the best of our knowledge, one study has been documented so far, in which the WPR approach was applied to analyse mental health policy focusing on the physical needs of people with MHIs (Henderson 2017). Furthermore, very few critical sociological studies of mental health policy have drawn on a cross-cultural approach, and as a result, as Carpenter (2000: 603) notes, 'much sociological theorising about community care in mental health universalises from Anglo-American contexts'.…”

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Making the subjects of mental health care: a cross‐cultural comparison of mental health policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia

Cui

Lancaster

Newman

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Constituting ‘social problems’ in particular ways has a range of effects, including for how subjects are positioned within policy and discourse. Employing an approach grounded in poststructuralist and social constructionist thinking, this analysis interrogates how the subjects of mental health care were constituted and problematised in mental health policies in two distinctive contexts, unsettling the taken‐for granted assumptions which underpin these problematisations. Two policies were selected for analysis as exemplar pieces of mental health policy reform in Hong Kong and New South Wales (NSW). Subjects were constituted as ‘patientised’ individuals (in Hong Kong) encouraged to depend on professionals who help them reintegrate into the ‘normal’ community, and as ‘traumatised’ individuals (in NSW) expected to take responsibility to guide the delivery of mental health care and respected as a part of diversity in community settings. While both policies constituted subjects as ‘unwell individuals’ and enacted ‘dividing practices’, subjectivities were shaped by distinctive cultural and socio‐political contexts. This analysis shifts our attention away from a focus on the effectiveness of policy solutions to the heterogeneity and contingency of policy ‘problems’ and ‘subjects’, opening up new possibilities for ‘out‐of‐the‐box’ policy responses to mental health.

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“…To counteract misrepresentations, best practices guidelines produced by mental health charities recommend including the voice of people with mental health problems by involving them directly, avoiding framing them as separate or other, and presenting more nuanced and complex representations [13,14]. However, in most cases people with mental health problems remain excluded from contributing to media representations of themselves as the artistic and financial pressures typical of mainstream media severely restrict access [12].…”

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Stepping Through Remixed

Manni

Ursu

Hook

2019

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video

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Participatory filmmaking offers opportunities to counterbalance stereotypes about mental health often endorsed by the mainstream media, by involving participants who have a lived experience of mental health problems in production. It is our experience, however, that the linear videos traditionally resulting from such processes can fail to fully accommodate and represent a plurality of participant voices and viewpoints and, as a consequence, may lead to oversimplified accounts of mental health. Interactive film, on the other hand, could open up a space of opportunities for participatory films that allow multiple voices and complex representations to coexist. In this paper, we explore this opportunity by reviewing a linear film produced by five men with mental health problems in 2016 about isolation and recovery. Through a series of creative workshops, the film was deconstructed by its participants, who analysed which additional possibilities of both form and content that could be revealed if the film was transformed into a non-linear interactive film. Our findings reveal several expressive needs that a non-linear interactive film could more easily accommodate and opportunities for making participatory filmmaking truly dialogic by allowing an active exchange with audiences that preserves, rather than streamlines, the tension between collective views and personal accounts. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing~Empirical studies in HCI KEYWORDSInteractive film, iDocs, mental health, participatory filmmaking, stigma

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Popular television and public mental health: creating media entertainment from mental distress

Cited by 28 publications

References 45 publications

Swedish Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Portrayals of Mental Illness in Public Media

Swedish Mental Health Nurses’ Experiences of Portrayals of Mental Illness in Public Media

Making the subjects of mental health care: a cross‐cultural comparison of mental health policy in Hong Kong, China and New South Wales, Australia

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